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What would you ask air travel expert Bill Swelbar about flying out of Huntsville airport?

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For the second consecutive quarter, Huntsville International Airport has been named the most expensive airport in the U.S., with fares running about $544 per passenger. (Eric Schultz | The Huntsville Times)

Last week, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics in the
U.S. Department of Transportation reported average fares in Huntsville were
higher than any other airport during fourth quarter 2012. Huntsville fares averaged about $544, while
the median domestic cost ran
about $374 per passenger, down 0.2 percent from the $375 average fare in fourth
quarter 2011.

The news came a week after the Huntsville-Madison County Airport
Authority reported passenger traffic was down 14 percent in April over last year, causing
year-to-date passenger totals to be 7 percent below the airport's projections
for fiscal 2013.

Swelbar, also a research engineer at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), will be available for media interviews by appointment
only between 10:30-11:30 a.m. Thursday at the Chamber of Commerce of
Huntsville/Madison County.

AL.com and The Huntsville Times will sit down with Swelbar, who
publishes an aviation blog, to talk about Huntsville's standing as the
most expensive airport in the United States, industry impacts on small-to-medium-sized
airports and the challenges airports like Huntsville face.

What questions would you ask Swelbar? Leave your questions
in the comment section below.